page_title: Rübeland Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Rübeland Railway
caption_attribution_description: Today, 17 April 2009, the electricity was turned back on at the Ruebelandbahn, after a number of years out of use, due to environmental campaigning. A multi-million pound renovation of the electrical system was paid for by the regional government and the Goslar-based quarry which exports several million tonnes of stone products from their site on the line annually. Listen and read about it &lt;a href="http://www.mdr.de/sachsen-anhalt/6292632.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; Passenger services were cancelled permanently in 2000. At the time of the photo, this train of mixed old and new livery carriages, was returning from Koenigshuette, rather than Elbingerode, where the service was pruned back to subsequently. This line was unique on the Deutsche Reichsbahn, being supplied with 25kV AV electricity at 50Hz, rather than the 15kV at 16.66 Hz. Thus, the locomotives were restricted to the wires between Blankenburg and Koenigshuette. Gradients of upto 15 per cent were worked by adhesion. It looks like this photo was taken at about the higest point of the line.
context_page_description: The Rübeland Railway is a railway link from Blankenburg via Rübeland and Königshütte to Tanne in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It was built by the Halberstadt-Blankenburg railway between 1880 and 1886. The route length is 30.6 kilometres, the height difference over 300 metres. The seven kilometre long section from Königshütte to Tanne was closed in 1968 and the five kilometres from Elbingerode to Königshütte followed suit on 30 August 2000, the last train to Königshütte having run in 1999.
  The name Rübeland Railway was first used when the railway was nationalised. Previously it had been known as the Harz Railway.
context_section_description: The Rübeland Railway (German: Rübelandbahn) is a railway link from Blankenburg via Rübeland and Königshütte to Tanne in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It was built by the Halberstadt-Blankenburg railway (HBE) between 1880 and 1886. The route length is 30.6 kilometres, the height difference over 300 metres. The seven kilometre long section from Königshütte to Tanne was closed in 1968 and the five kilometres from Elbingerode to Königshütte followed suit on 30 August 2000, the last train to Königshütte having run in 1999.
  The name Rübeland Railway was first used when the railway was nationalised. Previously it had been known as the Harz Railway (Harzbahn).
caption: 171 005 in October 1995
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